Improved clinching-iron



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PATENT DANIEL H. WILLIAMS, OF ANTWERP, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED QLINCHING-IRON.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55, [89, dated May 29, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL H. WILLIAMS, of the town of Antwerp, in the county ot' Jefferson, in the State of New York, have invented anew and useful Clinching-Iron for Glinching the Nails in Horseshoes, which I. do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, makinga part of this specilication, and in which- Figure l is a horizontal view of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of my invention.

This invention relates to a new and useful method of clinching the nails in horseshoesin the process of shoeing, and is neatly and expeditiously accomplished in a substantial manner without hammering upon the points ofthe nails or upon the upper surface of the hoof, as in the ordinary method; and it consists simply in either a castor a wrought iron cylinder about the size of vthe ordinary clinching-iron used by horseshoers, or about one and one-half to two inches in diameter and three to four inches in length, indented or grooved, as shown in the accompanying drawings, whereby it is claimed the several advantages of the saving of much time and hard labor to the shoer, asl well as much worrying and fretting of the ani- I mal, is saved, while a stronger and more substantial clinch is obtained than in the ordinary mode.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

equilateral angle' one-sixteenth ofan inch deep.

It will be seen from the above description that after the nail is driven into the hoof and the point twisted or out off, as in the ordinary process, by holding the shoulder formed by either of'tllese grooves against the upper side of the nail protruding out of the hoof, and then driving on the nail-head, the nail will be drawn and the point turned down and clinched at the same time, and will make a more uni form and perfect clinch than can be made with the hammer, while it saves the most laborious and the most dangerous part of the process of shoeing, which is the taking up and carrying the foot forward after the nails have been driven, cut off, and drawn down, and the holding the foot in that position for the purpose of hammering down the clinch.

l claim- The above-described cylindrical clinchingiron, having grooves A A and B B, substantially as set forth.

,DANIEL H. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses ALLAN MOGREGOR, S. G. WIeGINs. 

